For the purpose of this chapter, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
AMOUNTS FOR RECONSTRUCTION AND EXPANSION. Those amounts which represent a minimum of 80% of the amount retained by the town, together with interest earned thereon. These amounts shall be used solely for reconstruction and expansion of waste treatment facilities which must be approved by the United States Environmental Protection Agency. The remaining 20% of retained amounts may be used at the discretion of the town.
FEDERAL GRANT AMOUNTS. The portion of the total construction costs for Project Number C-180574 which was sponsored by the United States Environmental Protection Agency. Total construction costs will amount to approximately $1,347,546. The federal grant will amount to approximately $1,083,075.
INDUSTRIAL USER.
(1) Any nongovernmental user of the treatment works identified in the Standard Industrial Classification Manual, 1972, Office of Management and Budget, as amended and supplemented, under the following divisions:
(a) Division A - Agriculture, Forestry and Fishing;
(b) Division B - Mining;
(c) Division D - Manufacturing;
(d) Division E - Transportation, Communication, Electric, Gas and Sanitary Services; and
(e) Division I - Services.
(2) A user in the Divisions listed may be excluded if it is determined that the user will introduce primarily segregated domestic wastes or wastes from sanitary conveniences.
NONINDUSTRIAL USER. Any governmental or residential user. The term also includes commercial, institutional and other industrial users where it has been determined that the wastes contributed by these users is primarily segregated domestic wastes or wastes from sanitary conveniences.
NORMAL DOMESTIC WASTES. Wastes which do not exceed a biochemical oxygen demand strength of 200 milligrams per liter of fluid or a suspended solids strength in excess of 250 milligrams per liter of fluid.
PAYMENT TO UNITED STATES TREASURY. The portion of the recovered amounts that must be returned to the United States Treasury on an annual basis. The annual payments to the United States Treasury will amount to 50% of the annual recovered amounts, together with interest earned thereon.
PROJECT NUMBER C-180574. A separate and distinct construction project for construction of the town sewage works which was sponsored by the United States Environmental Protection Agency under the provisions of Pub. L. No. 92-500, being 33 USC 1251 et seq. This project does not include past or future construction, equipment or other services not included in the specific project number.
RECOVERED AMOUNT. The annual payments from industrial users for their share of the federal grant allocable to the cost of treating industrial waste, which is determined by dividing the amount of the total federal grant, allocable to the treatment of industrial waste, by the recovery period.
RECOVERY PERIOD. The industrial cost recovery period, which is hereby defined as a period of 30 years.
RETAINED AMOUNTS. The portion of the recovered amounts retained by the town. The RETAINED AMOUNTS will be equal to 50% of the recovered amounts, together with interest earned thereon.
SEGREGATED DOMESTIC WASTES. A concentration of waste discharges that do not exceed normal domestic waste strength and which are measurable and set apart from other industrial discharges. In order to ascertain than an industrial user is contributing primarily SEGREGATED DOMESTIC WASTES, the industrial user, at his or her expense, shall install and maintain meters, weirs, volumetric measuring devices or any adequate and approved method of measurement acceptable to the town for the determination of sewage discharge.
(Ord. 1976-1, passed 12-13-1976)